Finally upping my sound quality.. I guess lol

[Scougar]

After around a ten year hiatus, I have now bought a second set of Creative Labs Gigaworks T40's. Whilst certainly not the 'pinacle' of audio quality, they are a great set of speakers for desktop usage.

I had a set of the originals I believe I bought used from the members market, and sold them before I moved to the USA. I do actually have a 2.1 setup, but it's in storage, and cheap.

Also, I've just bought from Creative directly a refurbished Sound Blaster G6 to replace the onboard sound. I have a mini-ITX case so can't get an external card as that slot is taken by the 2070 GTX.

I got the speakers primarily because I've been watching a lot of you tube car videos lately and been getting back into listening to music again.

Hopefully they work well together.

TL;DR: Bought Gigaworks T40 Series II speakers and Sound Blaster G6 external sound card.

 

[Scougar]

These weren't an option?

Perlisten Audio S-Series Home Cinema Speaker Review

Review of Perlisten Audio's S-Series home cinema speaker system here consisting of two S7t towers, an S7c centre, two S4s surrounds and an D215s subwoofer

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Lol...I love the only Con listed on that as "You may have to sell an organ". I'm rather attached to mine at present

T40 Series II arrived today. Not that impressed with the T40's with onboard sound so far. Got another week till the G6 amp/soundcard arrives though.

 

[Scougar]

Try plugging the T40 to a good dedicated CD Player. If it doesn't sound good with that, a soundcard won't make it better, so return the T40's in that case.

I have an extremely good amp, but it is in storage at present. Will just patiently wait for the G6 to arrive.

P.s. I already have polk speakers (surround and massive floor units with an old but very good amp. I don't need more expensive speakers. I also have a 2.1 cheaper set in storage, I am just too lazy to go get it. Also, nostalgia purchase on the T40s purchase as well as I regret selling them when I moved country)

 

[Scougar]

Well... received my G6. Volume knob is immediately a pain in the butt. Keeps flicking between increasing and decreasing. If I go too fast, it pretty much only decreases the volume.

Need to get a 3 prong to splitter for my headphones so I can split out the Hyper X headphones to separate plugs for output and mic input. (EDIT: Ordered)

 

[Scougar]

If you bought a AVR they would have dedicated headphone amplifier and able to drive speakers also. You wouldn't need to faff around with three way splitters which'll degrade sound quality

Perhaps you misunderstood?

The 3.5mm plug on the headphones is for headphones and microphone. This normally plugs into a Hyperx USB adapter that goes to the PC. I won't be using this anymore. I need to split the headphones and mic to different outputs on the G6 now. HyperX make a cable specially for this purpose.

Note: the G6 has output for speakers and headphones, but that is not what I am referring to here.